Scientists are not dependent on the ideas of a single man, but on the combined wisdom of thousands of men, all thinking of the same problem, and each doing his little bit to add to the great structure of knowledge which is gradually being erected.

Public lecture on Thursday July 9, 2015

Einstein’s general relativity has changed our understanding of space and time and opened up an extraordinary richness of new phenomena: black holes, waves of space, the Big Bang, and more. In the talk a simple description of the theory will be given, and the current attempts to go beyond it will be described.